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An openly gay student at John Brown University says he was dismissed from the school earlier this month for violating campus lifestyle guidelines related to his sexual orientation and for material found in his online journals.
In a meeting with the school’s administration the week before school started last fall, Guinn said the administration told him that, in addition to the regular behavior covenant students sign, he was to abide by a separate code of conduct.
Guinn said he was told: not to dress in women’s clothing; if he participated in sports he could not slap other players on the rear end; he could not hug or shake hands with other men for too long ; he could not “broadcast” his lifestyle ; he could not tell other students he was gay until he got to know them well.
Once again, the loving "Christians" eat one of their own and throw him to the wolves. You have to feel bad for folks who are so ignorant and backwards. This is just plain old superstitious barbarism disguised as religion.
7 Comments:
Fundamentalism is a joke, no matter what religion it uses as its backdrop. Such mental malignancy always causes these assinine situations. Incredible how these Christian "universities" supress free thought and expression. Thank God I went to NYU!
posted by Anonymous, at
1/25/2006 11:25 AM
Religion IS superstitious barbarism. Belief in some invisible chap with anger control issues lurking in the clouds is unworthy of intelligent adults.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/25/2006 2:44 PM
For the life of me I cant understand why any gay person (or other good person of CONSCIENCE) would want to attend one of these ass backwards nuthouse 'christian' schools. I'm not excusing the school's behavior at all, but if you volunteer to lie down in a cave, chances are you're going to get up covered with bat guana.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/25/2006 2:44 PM
Religion IS superstitious barbarism. Belief in some invisible chap with anger control issues lurking in the clouds is unworthy of intelligent adults. Certainly, a large part of the societal animus gay people face stems from the tribal taboos of Bronze age shepherds that for some unfathomable reason are venerated as Divine Writ.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/25/2006 2:45 PM
This young man does not live far from the University of Arkansas/Fayetteville...I do think it noteworthy he wanted to be celibate...it would be interesting to know more of his story.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/26/2006 2:09 PM
I also think that it is significant that he chose to attend the school even after being giving more stringent guidelines. It was his choice to attend or not, and he violated that agreement (whether you agree with the rules or not). If the school was truly fundamentalist, they would not have admitted him in the first place.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/27/2006 1:22 PM
I am a Christian, you don't know me, but a lot of us have more sense than to slap your beliefs in the face repeatedly. I don't agree with that particular lifestyle and I'll admit to that if asked, but don't tell me that since I believe something different that I'm incapable of loving, befriending, and living alongside people of different beliefs. I'd like to think that we could all be civil and live together on this planet, accepting one anothers' beliefs. I'd like to think that folks such as one of the many "anonymous" posters who suggests that I believe in some "Invisible chap with anger control issues" could see that they're just as wrong to be dogmatic as the people who hurt them. I'm so sorry so many of you seem to have been hurt by religion, Christians, whatever. Please don't write all of us off as people just because we don't agree... not all of us are as hurtful as others.
posted by Anonymous, at
1/30/2006 4:55 PM
